Those who often criticize the works of comedy producer Judd Apatow for running overlong have new ammunition with “The Five-Year Engagement,” from director Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Get Him to the Greek”). The film often feels as long as the titular engagement, but it’s amiable and funny too, while later delving into heavier emotional material that doesn’t feel too common in Apatow’s work, with the exception maybe of his film “Funny People,” and we know exactly how people responded to that one.

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as Tom and Violet, he a rising chef and she a psychology academic on a doctoral track. They get engaged, but her post-doctorate program in Michigan delays their wedding, pushing Tom to leave his promising career in San Francisco to move with her. The years go on, though, and Tom and Violet are led to think about what they really want, and if their plans for the future could include one another.

Segel and Blunt are fine, with nice chemistry, but the movie gets bogged down, running a bit over two hours and chasing narrative detours and supporting performers (including Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie and Brian Posehn, among many others). “The Five-Year Engagement” is charming enough and it does feature a surprising emotional realism, though that seems enough to turn many viewers off from it. $29.98 DVD, $34.98 Blu-ray.

“SAFE”

Jason Statham is usually reliable to put out an action movie or two every couple of months, and most of the time they’re nothing to write home about. Statham himself is a workhorse of a screen presence, so the best you’re hoping for is a film tailored to his particular style.

He hasn’t proven terribly versatile as an actor, not that this is necessarily bad. So with all that said, every so often you get a film like “Safe” that falls squarely on the upper spectrum of Statham movies, delivering comfortably what you’d expect from his brand of action, except with a bit more style than usual. Let’s call it perfectly solid.

Statham plays a down-on-his-luck ex-cop and former cage fighter who gets in bad with the wrong people, making him a pariah on the streets of New York City. By chance he runs into a young girl (newcomer Catherine Chan) with an ability to memorize any number she sees, who holds information sought by the Chinese mafia, the Russian mafia and a group of dirty cops. He takes her under his wing, and the two escape through the city, working to keep one step ahead of the dangerous forces that want them.

This is a bit more grounded, say, than Statham’s “Transporter” films, so don’t expect stunts or silly action on that level. But the action is always lively, New York is shot in an interesting way and the story is just involving enough to keep you going ’til about the last 20 minutes or so, but by that point, you’re already most of the way through it, so just stick it out. $29.95 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray.

I should say that when I refer to its predecessor getting anything “right,” I’m judging on a dumb horror-comedy scale, as you’ll have to take any film about escaped prehistoric piranha wreaking havoc on nubile youths on spring break with a certain grain of salt. In its sequel, “Piranha 3DD” (I know, I know), take it with a number of grains of salt. But preferably don’t take it at all.

This time, the action is taken to a water park run by a sleazy man (David Koechner) with an eye toward gearing it to adults of a particular interest (I will say that the film earns the title, anyway). His stepdaughter (Danielle Panabaker), an appalled co-owner of the park, worries that the same piranha that so devastated a spring break in the first film are in a nearby lake as well, picking off her friends and, horror of horrors, may get into the water source of the water park. Which, of course, they do.

When your first film has a climax as horribly violent and bloody as the first “Piranha,” anything less is a letdown, and the climax here is that — but it also contends with horrible, tone-deaf direction and more jokes than horror. And bad jokes at that. $24.98 DVD, $29.99 Blu-ray.

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“THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT”

Those who often criticize the works of comedy producer Judd Apatow for running overlong have new ammunition with “The Five-Year Engagement,” from director Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Get Him to the Greek”). The film often feels as long as the titular engagement, but it’s amiable and funny too, while later delving into heavier emotional material that doesn’t feel too common in Apatow’s work, with the exception maybe of his film “Funny People,” and we know exactly how people responded to that one.

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as Tom and Violet, he a rising chef and she a psychology academic on a doctoral track. They get engaged, but her post-doctorate program in Michigan delays their wedding, pushing Tom to leave his promising career in San Francisco to move with her. The years go on, though, and Tom and Violet are led to think about what they really want, and if their plans for the future could include one another.

Segel and Blunt are fine, with nice chemistry, but the movie gets bogged down, running a bit over two hours and chasing narrative detours and supporting performers (including Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie and Brian Posehn, among many others). “The Five-Year Engagement” is charming enough and it does feature a surprising emotional realism, though that seems enough to turn many viewers off from it. $29.98 DVD, $34.98 Blu-ray.

“SAFE”

Jason Statham is usually reliable to put out an action movie or two every couple of months, and most of the time they’re nothing to write home about. Statham himself is a workhorse of a screen presence, so the best you’re hoping for is a film tailored to his particular style.

He hasn’t proven terribly versatile as an actor, not that this is necessarily bad. So with all that said, every so often you get a film like “Safe” that falls squarely on the upper spectrum of Statham movies, delivering comfortably what you’d expect from his brand of action, except with a bit more style than usual. Let’s call it perfectly solid.

Statham plays a down-on-his-luck ex-cop and former cage fighter who gets in bad with the wrong people, making him a pariah on the streets of New York City. By chance he runs into a young girl (newcomer Catherine Chan) with an ability to memorize any number she sees, who holds information sought by the Chinese mafia, the Russian mafia and a group of dirty cops. He takes her under his wing, and the two escape through the city, working to keep one step ahead of the dangerous forces that want them.

This is a bit more grounded, say, than Statham’s “Transporter” films, so don’t expect stunts or silly action on that level. But the action is always lively, New York is shot in an interesting way and the story is just involving enough to keep you going ’til about the last 20 minutes or so, but by that point, you’re already most of the way through it, so just stick it out. $29.95 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray.

I should say that when I refer to its predecessor getting anything “right,” I’m judging on a dumb horror-comedy scale, as you’ll have to take any film about escaped prehistoric piranha wreaking havoc on nubile youths on spring break with a certain grain of salt. In its sequel, “Piranha 3DD” (I know, I know), take it with a number of grains of salt. But preferably don’t take it at all.

This time, the action is taken to a water park run by a sleazy man (David Koechner) with an eye toward gearing it to adults of a particular interest (I will say that the film earns the title, anyway). His stepdaughter (Danielle Panabaker), an appalled co-owner of the park, worries that the same piranha that so devastated a spring break in the first film are in a nearby lake as well, picking off her friends and, horror of horrors, may get into the water source of the water park. Which, of course, they do.

When your first film has a climax as horribly violent and bloody as the first “Piranha,” anything less is a letdown, and the climax here is that — but it also contends with horrible, tone-deaf direction and more jokes than horror. And bad jokes at that. $24.98 DVD, $29.99 Blu-ray.